Emily Andrea Melanie Brothers (born 1964, Merseyside) is a British Labour politician who is standing in Isle of Wight East constituency in the 2024 General Election and stood in the Sutton and Cheam constituency in the 2015 General Election. She is the first openly transgender Labour Party candidate to run for Westminster.
Brothers was born on Merseyside. Diagnosed with aniridia, a condition affecting the iris, at six months old, she spent extended periods in hospital and lost her sight in childhood. At seven she became a weekly boarder at a Catholic school for blind and partially sighted children, and later studied at Teesside University, where she became involved in student politics.
Until February 2014, she was Programme Head at the Equality and Human Rights Commission, responsible for health and local government. Previously she worked at the Disability Rights Commission and the RNIB. She is an active member of the Greater London Association of Disabled People and former President of the National Federation of the Blind of the United Kingdom. She is on the board of the Community Network charity.
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